I'm not sure Petrino really has an ordered list of receivers. I get the impression that he has a huge number of different sets, and different receivers fit into each of them differently. One of the good things about having receivers with very different attributes.

That said, I'd rather have Robinson on the field ahead of White.

It looks like Roddy may always be plagued by the drops, which is freaking annoying, but it doesn't make him useless. He's still enough of a deep threat to be useful in that role. A D-coordinator can't assume that he is going to drop it in the endzone every time, so will have to provide coverage for those deep routes - with one of his fastest CBs. That also opens up the rest of the field underneath for our real receivers.

Also, Roddy has shown different ability in different routes. The slant, he stinks. Gets put off by the closing hit, I think. Probably best to leave them alone, I think. Deep routes, sometimes amazing, sometimes awful - but still useful (see above). He is best, it seems to me, at the short curl. CBs have to respect his speed, so leave him decent space. Roddy has yet to drop one of those short balls. And then his pace and incredible strength almost always gets him decent YAC as he literally wrestles forward.

So Roddy may be frustrating, but he is still useful. Not worth a first round pick, but that is history.

Robinson, on the other hand, is already looking like a top-10 pick. Hoorah for Paul Petrino!

I'm not sure Petrino really has an ordered list of receivers. I get the impression that he has a huge number of different sets, and different receivers fit into each of them differently. One of the good things about having receivers with very different attributes.

That said, I'd rather have Robinson on the field ahead of White.

It looks like Roddy may always be plagued by the drops, which is freaking annoying, but it doesn't make him useless. He's still enough of a deep threat to be useful in that role. A D-coordinator can't assume that he is going to drop it in the endzone every time, so will have to provide coverage for those deep routes - with one of his fastest CBs. That also opens up the rest of the field underneath for our real receivers.

Also, Roddy has shown different ability in different routes. The slant, he stinks. Gets put off by the closing hit, I think. Probably best to leave them alone, I think. Deep routes, sometimes amazing, sometimes awful - but still useful (see above). He is best, it seems to me, at the short curl. CBs have to respect his speed, so leave him decent space. Roddy has yet to drop one of those short balls. And then his pace and incredible strength almost always gets him decent YAC as he literally wrestles forward.

So Roddy may be frustrating, but he is still useful. Not worth a first round pick, but that is history.

Robinson, on the other hand, is already looking like a top-10 pick. Hoorah for Paul Petrino!

i wanted to write something very similiar about roddy when shiver posted this but i could not work out how to word it, very very well said. I actually like the guy, he is an exiting player, i guess we now have a boom or bust (from play to play) WR instead of a boom or bust (from play to play) QB. Roddy will be an asset to the team, i can live with the drops he is great to watch...lol he's like a rollercoaster, football would be boring if everyone was perfect.

Also did you hear what Joey said when asked what he said to Roddy after the drop...

paraphrasing
"i told him forget it, im gonna come right back at you. And the next play he made a great catch on that 'in' route" - i liked hearing that

well he hasnt played significant minutes in preseason but this year should be good for him considering his size and decent speed. he's made good catches so hopefully he wont muff any easy catches when it counts.

yeah he is but with our offense there will be many many plays where 3 or more receivers will be on the field. robinson has looked good but i guess the coaching staff is gonna go with experience in white.